Corn is by far the fastest Nintendo 64 emulator that supports commercial games. The graphics engine requires at least DirectX 6.1, and the sound emulation produces greatly for those select few playable games. It uses no plugin system.

When we started Project64 the operating system generally used was Windows98. We designed Project64 so that it would work in a self contained folder. We still use this design now; everything works from that one directory without needing an install. This also works great if you want to put the emulator onto a memory stick and run it from there...